These are two useful productivity tools for windows users. The first has some handy tools that can be switched off until needed, the 2nd is something that I really want. Power Toys Power Toys is an interesting free Windows tweek app. There are some new features that look as if they can help productivity. I’d

Finding tools that will increace your effectiveness which do not disrupt your workflow are always useful. Ultimate Windows 10 tweeker (UWT) UWT is a free programme that allows you to tweek some windows 10 settings without having to use RegEdit and potentially stuffing that up. They are also easily reversable, so if you don’t like

I saw this video on Kepler & React and was excited about the Kepler app. I want to try it with NZ covid data that I’m getting from some API endpoints. But its not structured in a GeoJson format. This is a tool that Uber have developed and shared, which is nice of them. I’m

I logged into Sanity.io using my Github account and there was a Project that I was interested in testing that I’d seen a video for which was the Kitchen Sink template, but noticed that there was also a Gatsby Template for a Blog post, so I thought I’d try that out instead: After selecting Blog

Trying to get a habndle on static sites, I’ve started a Gatsby & Hugo blog sites and now a barebones from the ground up using Next.js. This is a good tutorial to learn about dynamic pages and a static site so I’m going to focus on coding this, then head back to the Hugo site

Having a self created API allows me to hook up data to connect to front end pages, so I can feed information from the API to the page. This tutorial is CRUD tutorial with firebase firestore and functions , so another item that I’m very interested in. This is the video series where Søren Spangsberg

I was trying to use a Material-UI blog template to explore using React ans MUi. I went to their Github page and its massive, and the small part that I wanted to use I couldn’t access from a Clone Repository. I was messing around inside github and accidentally Forked the repository. What this did is

This seems a practical tutorial to do. It does the basic things that yuou want, Create, Read, Update & Delete. He does a script upload for database populating, but I’m interested in using it as a web app for a to do list or project list. Github repository for code HERE. After downloading his code

Use gitgub to host your website is a free service that you can utilise as well as using Freenom to get a free domain name for the site instead of the github domain. To get the Custom domain secure you can use Cloudflare CDN. This is something that occurs when working on your own, you

There is a great series of videos on how to set up this project by the Net Ninja (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4cUxeGkcC9iWstfXntcj8f-dFZ4UtlN3) The first video is: There is also a github repository with all the code here, you have to look at the branches to get the individual video lessons. So from your VS Code terminal >git pull

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My current area of interest is in exploring Asset & Facilities Management tools based on capturing information at Design/Construction phase for use throughout the life of the building. Tools I am using are open-source or common programmes to allow maximum accessibility to the information both in geometric and data format.

This has dropped me into the world of programming HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, VBA, PHP & AJAX to name but a few distractions.